Packing for Costa Rica

I am starting to pack for Costa Rica, but keeping light. I decided to leave my snorkel stuff at home, as there are only a couple spots where it is decent in Costa Rica. I think I can rent some stuff if need be. Right now the plan is to head to Monteverde (cloud forest) and figure out where we want to go from there. The central coast (Manuel Antonio & others) and Osa Peninsula are looking like the likely targets.

-Did they “cleanse” Bush’s military files of embarrassing or incriminating documents? A former senior officer of the Texas Guard seems to think so.
-Wow, the press actually questions the crappy whitehouse answers. That has not happened in a long time.
–More money fun, the U.S. military may run out of money for three months beginning Oct. 1.
-Saddam the druggie?
-John Kerry & an intern? Doesn’t look good.

Healthcare

Why Canadians are healthier – An impressive array of comparative data shows that Canadians live longer and healthier lives than we (americans) do. What’s more, they pay roughly half as much per capita as we do — $2,163 versus $4,887 in 2001 — for the privilege

Have to say that my experience here so far backs this up. Despite the problems that the CDN system has, it is a long way ahead of the US system.